Head of Security Engineering
JanuaryDebt Resolution company
New York, United StatesDirector
IA Ventures
Brewer Lane Ventures
Third Prime
Reciprocal Ventures
Upper90
Shrug Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead security strategy and engineering team to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.
- •As our Head of Security, you'll help us maintain and radically improve a proactive security posture that ensures compliance with industry standards, mitigates real risks, and enhances client confidence in how we handle sensitive data.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and own the strategy for security engineering.
- •Hire, mentor, and grow the security engineering team.
- •Lead identity and access management across our systems.
- •Direct security monitoring, detection, and incident response.
- •Own our security posture for AI, in both our products and internal tools.
- •Manage cloud security architecture and guardrails.
- •Own vulnerability management end to end.
- •Partner with our compliance function to support SOC2, PCI, and other audit and regulatory work.
- •Requirements 6+ years of experience in security, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
- •Hands-on software or security engineering background.
- •Prior experience working in a regulated industry.
- •Track record of setting security strategy and driving it to execution.
- •Strong communicator and collaborator.
- •Preferred: strong understanding of how AI/ML systems work and where they introduce risk.
Required skills
Compliance Management
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
Compliance Management